Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Mar 20 03:16:43 CET 2006

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Just van Rossum wrote:
> Greg Ewing wrote:
>
> > Also maybe start issuing warnings whenever you inherit
> > directly from Exception.
> 
> Ugh. I hate it when it's made (virtually) impossible to write code that
> runs warnings-free on both Python X.Y and X.(Y+1).

Yes, that could be a problem. Maybe there could be a
__future__ import which says "I know about the new
exception scheme, trust me when I inherit from
Exception."

Greg

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